Penny Blood: Serial Sensation and Working-Class Entertainment — page 73: what you’re looking at

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56 ELEVATIONS AND DEPRESSIONS. _ [cu.v. mean height of the land at 1000 feet. Sir Wyville Thomson, in his Rede lecture at Cambridge in 1877, stated that the mean depth of the Atlantic was about 2500 fathoms, In places its depth was 3000 fms. or a little more, and in one place 4000 fms. The greatest depth in any ocean was perhaps in the Pacific, where in one place it was 5000 fms, ) If we adopt Prof. Haughton’s estimate of the areas of sea and land, and of the mean height of the land; and Sir Wyville Thomson’s estimate of the mean depth of the sea, viz. 2500 fms., and if we take 4000 fms. as the depth of the more profound parts (though we might apparently be entitled to take it greater), we obtain 2ke = 13224 feet.. This value is very much larger than that which the former estimates give. But since the Author has used the lesser value in his previous publications, he thinks it better to allow it to remain, seeing that precision is not attainable, and that the larger value merely strengthens the argument drawn from the smaller. COMIC OOOKS.EO ee eee 8 ee a eee